Initiative Manager and Livelihood Specialist-based Job at Care - Career Opportunity in Uganda

Job details:About CARE InternationalCARE
International is a leading global development and humanitarian
organization. in 2016, CARE worked in 94 countries around the world,
supporting 962 poverty-fighting development and humanitarian aid
projects, reaching more than 80 million people.CARE
international in Uganda works with others to make a sustainable
improvement in the lives of the very poor, with a focus on women and
girls. Our current program focuses on women and girls’ economic rights,
particularly financial inclusion and governance of natural resources
women and girls depend upon, and on their sexual and reproductive health
rights, including a life free of violence.CARE
International in Uganda seeks a highly motivated and qualiﬁed
development professional with genuine commitment to gender equality and
women and girls’ rights to fill up the following position for its West
Nile Humanitarian Program.Job Title: Initiative Manager and Livelihood Specialist-based in Arua Sub-office

Overall purposeThe
initiative Manager & Livelihood Specialist (IMLS) is responsible
for managing projects that include livelihood components, in partnership
with local partners where relevant. S/he seeks guidance from other
Specialists on the team for other technical components, such as
Protection, GBV, EMB & RMM, shelter etc and s/he provides technical
support to other members of the humanitarian team on livelihood.The
IMLS will manage a number of projects, the number will vary overtime,
As initiative Manager, the IMLS is responsible for managing all aspects
of a given initiative or project, including Human Resource Management of
staff assigned to that particular initiative, planning and timely and
quality implementation of initiatives in line with approved proposals
and work plans, financial management of grants in line with approved
budget, overall compliance of initiatives in line with organizational
and specific donor rules and regulations, management of assets assigned
to the initiatives, monitoring, evaluation and reporting. The IMLS
reports to the Emergency Team Leader and is part of CARE‘s West Nile
Humanitarian Management team.Key tasks

Quality assurance and development of gender, youth and conﬂict sensitive livelihood interventions

Job and person specification (Requirements)

Bachelor's degree in Economics, Rural Development, Agriculture or related field (though a Master’s degree is preferred)

Expert
level knowledge and at least 5 years practical experience in livelihood
programming in rural Uganda, preferably with refugee and / or displaced
populations

Experience
in at least two of the following fields required: cash transfer
programs (cash for food, cash for work, etc.), financial inclusion
(VSLAs and bank linkages), market engagement and value chain approaches,
on and off farm livelihood preferred

People manager with proven experience managing diverse teams and individuals’ performance for success

Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.

Computer literate (email, word processing, spreadsheets)

Personally
committed to gender equality and women and girls’ empowerment with
ability to lead to organizational change processes that aim at making
organizations more gender aware, gender committed and gender competent.

Both a team player as well as able to work independently with minimum supervision.

Job application procedureInterested
persons meeting the above requirements should submit their application
letter clearly articulating alignment with the above profile and an
updated detailed (CV) giving day time telephone contacts and names and
addresses of 3 (three) work related referees to ugarecruitment@care.org not later 27th July 2017.

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